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Comment on VMware Player on Debian by Craig

Craig — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:33:36 +0000

As the error message says, you used (and I told everyone) the wrong -p option. The correct command is patch -p0 < vmnet.patch so just change the “1″ for “0″ and you should be right to go.

Comment on VMware Player on Debian by re7erse

re7erse — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:00:50 +0000

did not work for me:

/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source# patch -p1 < vmnet.patch can't find file to patch at input line 4 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?

The text leading up to this was:

|diff -u vmnet-only.orig/filter.c vmnet-only/filter.c |--- vmnet-only.orig/filter.c 2012-01-19 09:22:02.000000000 +1100

|+++ vmnet-only/filter.c 2012-02-16 21:03:24.000000000 +1100

File to patch:

Comment on PHP floats and locales by Craig

Craig — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:43:42 +0000

rrdtool is doing the right thing, for a locale that has comma as a decimal point output the value as a decimal point. To me that makes a lot of sense.

About the string to float conversion, its a little more than a type-cast but let's say that's all it is. The relevant page on string conversions says it uses strtod and friends and that underlying function IS locale aware.

Anyway, PHP has a function floatval() that should work; except it gives the same wrong result as the type-cast.

Comment on PHP floats and locales by Tobias

Tobias — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:56:01 +0000

I’m not fast to jump to the defense of PHP, but it’s quite correct here. (float) is just a type-cast. It’s not locale-aware and that is totally okay. The real problem is an API (RRDs) which gives you a locale-tainted numeric. This was a problem in RRDs XML-export some time ago, maybe it’s still present here?

Comment on PHP floats and locales by Craig Small: PHP floats and locales | Linux-Support.com

Craig Small: PHP floats and locales | Linux-Support.com — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:40:41 +0000

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Comment on Back Online by Wouter Verhelst

Wouter Verhelst — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:34:37 +0000

Gotta love the ex-monopolies (ex, if only in name).à

In Belgium, the ex-monopoly is Belgacom. Some customer ordered a high-speed line from them, but they said the best they could do was a 2Mbit SDSL. Two weeks down the line it became abundantly clear that this was not enough, so we talk to the neighbours whom we know have a 100Mbit fiber that they don't completely use and ask if we can leach some bandwidth using a wireless link over the street. "Coincidentally", we say, "where are you getting your fiber link". "Belgacom"

So we call back. "Oh, good that you tell us," Belgacom says, "we didn't know that we had a fiber over there. Yes, sure, then we should be able to do that for you, too"

Morons.

Comment on VMware Player on Debian by Scott Busby

Scott Busby — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:45:30 +0000

Worked perfect on my Debian Testing system! Linux kernel 3.2.0-1-686-pae

Thanks for the patch.

Scott

Comment on VMware Player on Debian by Craig

Craig — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:28:31 +0000

Ooh, care to explain why? I’m not challenging your suggestion just curious about the reasons behind that; besides not having to do evil patches like my blog entry describes.

Comment on VMware Player on Debian by Kai Hendry

Kai Hendry — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:19:26 +0000

As a long time VMware user who has recently switched to Virtualbox, I suggest you do the same.

Comment on Latex to HTML Converters by Craig

Craig — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 06:08:39 +0000

Thanks for the link that looks like an interesting program that can (apparently!) convert almost anything to anything. It is even packaged in Debian too.